Your’re probably right, I don’t understand much of what’s written here.

What I am trying to illuminate, or perhaps as you write redefine, is our blurring perspective of things, the mistaken perception of the private and public sectors nowadays so starkly evident here in Washington.

How quickly we pass judgement on individuals that bring prosperity to a street in urban blight. How the District of Columia has since home rule become so unwelcome to business and private investment mistakenly thinking that the public sector will make things better when history proves that it just can’t in a sustainable manner resulting in our current conditions.

We have sadly a diminishing private sector currently. Soon there will be nobody left to tax and consequently nobody left producing, building, and making things of sustainable value.

Those in the real world private sector whose future livelihood is uncertain can better understand this than those whose livelihood comes from perpetual tax revenues.

Governments, local, state, and federal cannot tax each other. Consequently, the public sector and its payrolls’ only source of revenue is its myriad of taxes upon the private sector that struggles to survive on regular basis. There is no chicken and egg debate there.

While others wouldn’t dare, here we have two men willing to set up shop on a vacant lot in a neighbor in need and blight. Their sustainable efforts should be welcome.

Diners serve up daily meals three times a day, not contraband.

Private sector efforts are progress and sustainable prosperity, but here in D.C. they have become increasingly unwelcome by the social engineers without license and our elected spread the misery central planners that govern by ration.

Enough said on this sunny Summer afternoon in our nation’s capital.

May you have a good one, Neener.

Reformed Somali Pirate “Tantum Eruditi Sunt Liberi”

By definition risk taker are risk takers. Prove it that they aren’t? Then show how your comment tries to redefine the meaning of the word.

And then how that same community’s support and empathy pours without end for the unproductive, the sloth still healthy, walking and able, with housing, food, utilitities and all manner of assistance and handouts, again without end.

Where are our priorities as a community ?

This country was built by risk takers in a sadly diminishing private sector.

I’m with most of the other comments. Wouldn’t information about available utilities have been provided when the diner owners bought the land? If they didn’t buy the land, shouldn’t they have investigated the utility situation first? As the property used to be a used car lot, it would seem lazy to simply assume that all the necessary utilities for a restaurant are available. And like someone else said–do the owners not have a contigency fund for things like this? It is pretty essential for any business owner.